A History of Freedom of Thought
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: International Debate Education Association
Published: May 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781932716320
Subjects: Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Surveys - General; Movements - Existentialism; Public Policy - Social Policy; History / World; Free thought; History; Rationalism
Description: "In Freedom of Thought, J. B. Bury provides a survey of intellectual history, describing the struggle for intellectual freedom from ancient times to the beginnings of the 20th Century. He guides the reader from the flowering of rational inquiry in early Greece, through the suppression of free thought during much of the Middle Ages, to the rediscovery of classical philosophy in the Renaissance, and finally to the growth of rationalism beginning with the Age of Reason in the 17th century."--BOOK JACKET.